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Pando Media Booster

How dare you (Riot) install this bandwidth theiving device on my computer.

For weeks i have been having network problems with my net basically being ridiculously slow (1 notch to 'offline') during and after i play lol, and its because of this fricking program, which you install with no consent, stealthily when we install LOL.

Apart from the legalities of pushing something onto someones system without their consent or knowledge, its just a freaking dumb thing to do.

ITS MALWARE. It may be 'useful' for you, to spread the cost of uploads, but for the end user, it is MALWARE.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT?

ESPECIALLY when you dont have the COMMON COURTESY to say, for example:

"Please be aware that installing LOL will also install 'Pando Media Booster', which will put you in a peer cloud totally unrelated to the game. Your computer will then be used as a proxy which we will use to send data from, this will cripple your net connection".

Because yes, that is what pando does.

So to anyone wondering WTF is up with their net connection, look at the sneaky **** which LOL installs.

And i hope i get a red response because this is actually a serious issue, RIOT. I agree to play a game, not to have my pc and net taken over by what is essentially a trojan horse. For a professional company (hah) you REALLY are stepping the line with this.

EDIT : To the fanboys behaving like Riots own personal solicitors - apart from it NOT being in the EULA:
I honestly worry sometimes, because people like you that think that if they could find a way to 'legally' rob a million people blind, it would be acceptable. Because, for some reason, you think that legality = morality. And if you cant be sued for something, then you cannot be held accountable for anything.

Indeed, like two weeks ago i was wondering whats up with my internet connection after/while playing LoL.
Ridiculous slow on edge of going offline(exactly same as seercirra issue), after uninstalling that pando thingy it works just fine duh.

Its not like i have a weak connection either, i have a 20mb connection, download at a straight 2mb/s, which is pretty good for england, but PMB would bring my net to a standstill any time that the lol launcher was running or for up to about 20 minutes after closing the lol client.